Famous Quotes & Sayings

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Abraham Maslow

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

Harvey V. Fineberg

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others.

Alexander Hamilton

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

Alex Rodriguez

Looks aren't the number one thing. They have to have class, intelligence, then looks. If I was the ugliest SOB in the world it would be a lot easier.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.

Aleksandar Hemon

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Mexico City is very different now than when I grew up, but I was in the streets all the time - though I was born to a middle-class neighborhood where there weren't a lot of gangs and things. I was always comfortable.

Aleister Crowley

How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes.

Albert Einstein

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

Albert Einstein

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

A Socrates in every classroom.

Alfred Russel Wallace

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

Alex Ferguson

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

We do a lot with a little. We also have composed modern classical music for orchestras, so that helps us understand how to voice and temper our uses of instruments.

Dave Tippett

We were all right. I wouldn't class that as a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination - from play to officiating to the whole works.

We describe ourselves as contemporary variety. We're pretty wide-ranging -- hits, oldies, classic rock, country. Our real sweet spot is classic rock, though,

We delivered pretty much a kindergarten class a day.

We won with class last year and this year we lost with class.

We want to make cuts as far away from the classroom as possible,

We want to look at survivors as organizers and not so much our clients. We've seen many successful programs started by victims including one called 'Sister to Sister' which offers dance classes but also political training.

A. N. Wilson

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

A. Philip Randolph

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

The defendant violated his pledge to protect classified information. He compromised national security and the system that protects it.

We play everything from classic rock to modern rock, and our originals which fall somewhere in between.

We played with Superchunk on our first American tour. We've always liked the records they release. They're a good, classic indie label, and they're genuine fans of music. And they're really just as enthusiastic about it as they were when we first met them.

We plan to develop a first-class resort at that site. This is not simply going to be a rebuild.

We open our classrooms up and they come in and study. These students are the most driven I've ever seen when it comes to this sort of thing.

Vanessa Morgan

I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

Tamara Taylor

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

Tamara Taylor

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

Troye Sivan

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

Carrie Brownstein

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.